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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16547	An exposition of al the principal Scriptures vsed in our English liturgie together with a reason why the church did chuse the same / by Iohn Boys ...	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1610 (1610)	STC 3456.7; ESTC S221	104,165	134

world is a schoole where in a generall storie God alwaies reades dumbe lectures of his glorie Plato called it Gods epistle the renowned Hermite Antonius a booke wherein euery simple man who cannot reade may notwithstanding spell that there is a God It is the Shepheards Kalender and the Ploughmans Alphabet This appertaineth essentially and generally to the whole Trinitie for the Father is not onely Creator and Almightie but the Sonne and holy Ghost The creation in the masse of the matter is attributed to God the Father in the disposition of the forme to God the Sonne in the preseruation of both to God the holy Ghost It is said of God personally Father Sonne Holy Ghost The Father is the first not in any prioritie of nature or honour or time but order or as the schoole Prioritate originis according to that of Athanasius in his Creed The Father is of none the Sonne is of the Father alone the holy Ghost of both I will send saith Christ from the Father euen the Spirit of truth Ego mittam à Patre spiritum Ostendens quòd pater est totius diuinitatis vel si m●lius dicitur deitatis principium Adore simply rather then explore subtilly this ineffable mysterie Scrutari temeritas est credere pietas est nosse vitaest Bernard de considerat ad Eugenium lib. 5. He is father of Christ by nature singulariter Good men by adoption specialiter All men and all things by creation generaliter as y ● worke is appropriated vnto him in regard of his power And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord. That which concerneth the second person is more largely set downe then all the rest teaching vs hereby that as we should respect other doctrine so this in more speciall sort as being the center of all the Creed and Scriptures circumference 1. Cor. 2. 2. This person is described by his Titles 1. Iesus 2. Christ. 3. His onely Sonne 4. Our Lord. Estate of Humiliation Incarnation Passion Exaltation 1. Iesus is his proper name giuen him by the Angell Other if any haue the very name were typicall Sauiours only Iesus Naue the figure of Christ as a King Iesus Sydracke the figure of Christ as a Prophet Iesus Iosedecke the figure of Christ as a Priest Augustine Eusebius and generally all expositors vpon the 3. of Zucharie This sweet name containes in it a thousand treasuries of good things in delight whereof S. Paul vseth it fiue hundred times in his Epistles as Genebrardus obserueth 2. Christ His appellatiue title of office and dignitie Concerning these two titles Iesus and Christ see the Gospell Dom. 1. post Natiuit 3. His only Sonne which implieth that he is God Iohn 1. 1. A distinct person from the Father Mat. 28. 19. God because he is a son not as other by fauor but by nature whatsoeuer the Son receiueth of y e Father he receiueth it by nature not by grace he receiueth not as other apart but all that the Father hath sauing the personall proprietie Only sonne Called the first begotten in respect of his mother and humane nature onely begotten in respect of his Father and diuine nature For the holy Spirit is not begotten but proceeds as the Scripture doth distinguish Nasci est à potentia intelligente quia filius cogitatione nascitur est ●mago patris at procedere est à voluntate quia spiritus sanctus est amor c. I belieue Lord helpe mine vnbeliefe The coniunction And prooueth that the Sonne is equall with the Father as concerning his Godhead and yet a distinct person Alius personaliter nowaliud essentialiter I beleeue in God the Father And in Iesus Christ. Our Lord as our Creator Redeemer Gouernor as head of the Church Eph. 4. 5. Suetonius obserueth that Augustus refused the name of Lord. Orosius notes that it was at that time when Christ was borne that all Lordship might be giuen vnto him See Epistle Dom. 17. post Trinit Christs incarnation is Israels consolation for all sound comfort stands in happinesse all happinesse in fellowship with God all fellowship with God is by Christ who for this cause being very God became very man that he might reconcile God to man and man to God he became little that we might be great the Sonne of man that we might be the sonnes of God His incarnation hath two parts Conception Birth Conceiued by the holy Ghost Works of power are attributed to the Father of wisdome to the Sonne of loue to the holy Ghost Wherefore because this was a worke of highest loue in God toward mankind it is ascribed especially to the holy Spirit Luke 1. 35. The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee and the power of the most high shall ouershadow thee Signifying hereby that this mystery cannot be seene cleerely therefore not to be examined curiously S. Augustine calles it a sweet coniunction where speech is husband and eare wife Meaning that as soone as the blessed Virgin assented to the Angels message she conceiued Birth I make Christs incarnation a part of his humiliation because there can be no greater abasement then that hee who thundred in the cloudes should cry in the cradle swadled in a few ragges whom the heauen of heauens could not containe that the eternall Word should become an infant that he who was the father of Mary should be now the sonne of Mary The Scripture tels vs how man comes foure waies into the world 1. By the helpe of man and woman as all are vsuallie borne 2. Without any man or woman and so the first man was created 3. Of a man without a woman and so was Eua made 4. Of a woman without a man and so was Christ borne Of the Virgin Mary Where the mother of Christ is described by her Name Mary Surname Virgin The new Iesuits and old Friers haue many wonderfull extrauagant conceits of this name let it suffice that it is added in the Gospell and Creed to shew that Christ came of the linage of Dauid and that therefore he was the true Messias as God had promised and prophecied by the mouthes of all his holy seruants Virgin A perpetuall Virgin Before In After Christs birth Before his birth against 1. Iewes 2. Gentiles 3. Cerinthians Vnto the first we say with Cyril Pariet Aaronis virga sine semine non pariet virgo sine semine aut vtrumque negate aut vtrumque concedite Against the second we haue Ficta Qui enim è Iouis cerebro Mineruam ex eiusdem femore Bacchum falsò prognatum esse fabulamini quomodo ex vtero virginali Christum nasci dicitis impossibile Facta Quoniam animalia multa sine commistione generantur And Plutarch in the life of Numa spake like an Angell Incredibilo non est vt